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Hello Mont

WELL-KNOWN Hobart journalist and communications specialist Bruce Montgomery has resigned suddenly from the Forests and Forest Industry Council, claiming his efforts to...

Times Future (3)

IT’S A HARD TIME to be writing this post, having swung from yesterday’s euphoria of London’s 2012 Olympic success to the reality...

Times future (2)

THE response to Rick Pilkington’s article (Your Say) is a damning indictment on this site’s contributor base and seems to rather confirm...

Daft, inconsistent, nonsense, babble

AND off the back of a browser in the back of a truck … Community and Public Sector Union ABC Staff Union...

Times future

I. The Democratization of Opinion Andrew Leigh, an ANU economist who writes for On Line Opinion (“OLO”), argued recently that the opinion...

The riddle

The gagging of Peter Cundall

PRESENTER Liz Jackson ended last night’s Media Watch with the “pulping of Peter Cundall”. Said Jackson: “What a relief now to get...

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A FASCINATING analysis of breaking news-story-via-leak and the regurgitation of words straight from the Source’s mouth is published on the website of...

For Sale: the Fifth Estate

BACK from my combined liver-cleansing/depilation/colonic irrigation/parliamentary prayer retreat at the Zeehan spa and home entertainment emporium … And let me tell you,...